¹ An expanded version of this article was read in a seminar on Late Latin Lexicography at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, in Kalamazoo (Michigan), in the spring of 1987. Parts of it were later incorporated in an article entitled "Parole di Dante: abborrare", published in Studi Danteschi, vol. LXIII, 1997, pp. 243-254). That article is now available online. To read it click here.

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The English version of Dante's lines quoted in this note are taken from the "Verse Translation" of THE INFERNO and PURGATORIO by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander, New York, Anchor Books, respectively, 2002 and 2004.